Douglas M. Fuchs is of counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office.  He is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and its White Collar Defense and Investigations and Securities Litigation Practice Groups.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fuchs was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California from 2000 to 2006, serving as Deputy Chief of the Major Frauds Section since 2005. During his tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Fuchs handled nine jury trials and was personally involved in all phases of the criminal prosecution of complex federal white collar fraud cases, including securities, accounting, bankruptcy, tax and money laundering and investor frauds.  

Mr. Fuchs handled the high-profile prosecution of 11 former Homestore.com executives in connection with a revenue inflation scheme, which culminated in a nearly three-month jury trial in which the former CEO, Stuart Wolff, was convicted on all counts. The investigation was used as a model to formulate Justice Department policy relating to the prosecution of corporate fraud and corporations. Other representative matters include the prosecution of eight members of a telemarketing boiler-room operation for defrauding investors out of several million dollars and prosecution of numerous individuals for a variety of crimes.

Before his tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Fuchs practiced with Munger, Tolles & Olson and Davis Polk & Wardwell. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Fuchs graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 1992.